Manure-spreaders.



. PATENTED NOV. 26, 1907 D. K. WILSON. MANURE SPREADER. AEPLIOATION FILED JUNE 25. 1907.

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. INVENTOR Dalian it. Wz Zson,

WITNESSES:

citizen of the United States oi' Rumour-1.,

manure spreaders, and the object of l.

UNITED No. 871,845. Specification of a Application iilrzd 711a "0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DALTON hi. s immest, i

a resident of W'aterloo, Blackhav' Iowa, have invented certain new and ful Improvements in Manure-Spremla= which the following is a specification My invention relates to impiuwcnie;

vention is to provide means for r; lowering the driving-sprocket-dram m. from or into driving contact with the dry ing-sprocket-wheel. This object I h ervr tained b the means which are here describe and claimed, and which trated in the accompanying draw 1 which:-

Figure 1 is a side elevation of ma spreader, equipped with my in Y "ion; 2 is a detail View of one of the siot it Fig; 3 is a detail plan View of to of the spr0cl et-chein idler on. said Similar numbers refer to throughout the several views.

I have shown in Fig. 1 a eonventiozn representation of a manure spreader hes mounted on carrying wheels 24 and 2;; provided at the rear with a beater-d whose shaft is oivotally S11"? iorted bracket 7 extending rearwarnly "from side, of said box The numeral 1 signifi r, large s r0cket-wheel fastened by the ole 8 to tie inside faces of the spokes drive-wheel 25. A sprocket-chain orted over the sprocket wheel 1, I'O'tiltatl about the sprocket-wheel 5 on the end. oi beater-drum shaft, and about the ley 2. The idler 2 is rotatably more .7 short shaft 26, the latter having its inn'a" mounted. in a bearing-sleeve 21 which cured to the side-lever 11 by holts 3H. shaft 26 may he slidably adjus ed 1 said sleeve, and then fixedly secured lheivto by means of a set-screw 27.

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sprechetid driven ing and phain out with. said wi lie shit 11 is threaded at its rear end to rocoi 17, and a socket hearing 12). the latter means a lengthwise adjustn'ient is made sible to said sidelcver, the nut l7 hei our-2d meted lock-nut, and the s0cl et-l ea.ring 1;; in l up -s secured to the end of said lever by means oi r i l i set-screw 18. The sockebhearing i3 pit v 21' walls j in said oted on a stud-shaft 19 projecting from the 1 sleeve-bearing, an idler-pulley rotatable on Signed at Waterloo, Iowa, this 22nd day said shaft, 2. sprocket-chain about said idler of June 1907. and said driven sprocket-wheel, and means for raisin and lowering said lever to cause 5 said sproc et-chain to be separated from or Witnesses:

to enter into operative engagement with said G. G. KENNEDY; driving sprocket-wheel. O. D. YOUNG.

DALTON K. WILSON. 

